Hillsboro recorder., 1887-12-08
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improvements and Now a ali roads Prsleet.
ed-NcilxisHs, Social, nBd Temperance
Hems-Ffres, Deaths, Marriages SO.


Improvemsnts and Now 4 all roads PrsIeet.
cd-UciIxieHs, Social, nBd Temperance
hems-Fires. Deaths, Marriages So.
From present indications, Augusta,
Ga, will soon raise 500, 900 for the pro.
posed exposition, which occursa ycai
hence.
Fire broke out in the, Montgomery
Touring mills, IN Montgomery, Ala, and
The building, machinery and stock were
all completely destroyed. Less, about
SOC. ZOO; insurance, 500, 900.
There was a terrific explosion Of the
boiler Of Duncans mill, thirteen miles
from Pine Bluff, Ark, which dangerous
ly scllded two persons aud killed one
outright. Il made a wrock of the mill.
The directors Of the Atlanta Piano
Manufacturing Company purchased o
large lot few hundred yards below
Elsas, May q Co. 's'cotton factory, on the
liDe Of the Georgia railroad, and has
given out the contract for tie necessary
buildings.
Archbishop Feehan, Of Chicago, H..
lnd for y long time Bishop Of Nashville,
has arrived in Nashville, Tenn to takr
part in the consecration Of Father Scan
nell to the bishopric. The conservation
will be an event OF the greatest interest
there, as both Father Scannell ard Arch,
bishop Feehan are widely known aud
loved, The ceremonies will take place
at St. Joseph's church.
Capt. Geo.ge Denhanl, Of the British
steamer, Ocean King, from London,
which arrived at New Orleans. La., took
a carriage for West Eud. Soon sfter
leaving the vehicle, Capt. Denham con-
cluded 10 take bath. Instead of going
down the bath house steps, the captain
plunged headforemost into the lake. Ills
head coming in contact with smc lid
den obstruction; his neck was broken.
The House Of Representatives Of South
Carolina resumed the consideration Of
the bill TO compel railroad companies TO
put draws on their bridges, which crnss
nayigable rivers and thus promote the
opening up Of steamboat navigation be-
tween the seacosst and Columbia. The
railroad people made bitter fight against
the bill, but il passed its second reading
without division, aud its final passage
Is therefore assured.
The South Carolina Conference Of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South, con-
vened at Spartanburg, s. c., in lis 102d
annual session, Bishop McTycire Rresid.
ing. This is the largest deliberatiye re-
ligious body In the state, representing q
membership u 65,0O0 souls or one
eighth Of the entire population Of the
state. The first session Of this confer
'ence was held in Charleston, Mach, 1857.
There were then 2,07J white men and
boys AMI l4t colored.
Tobacco, before the War, was one Of
the principal products Of West Florida.
Since the War ii has been abandoned for
long staple cotton. II has been discov.
cred, recently, that Florida leaf, when
properly grown and cured, equals In
quality that Of Cuba and Sumatra. Much
Of this years crop sold at from twenty
to fifty cents pound, averaging thirty.
A New York syndicate has bought TO-
900 acres Of land In Gadsden aud Co.
lumbia counties, and win plant over one
thousand acres In tobacco during the
coming year.
While laying a thirty-inch water main
in Chattanooga Tenn, at the bridge over
the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
railroad, a freight train came along
and Jared the earth 80 that the ditch
cayed ID, covering Alexander Wilkenon
and Berry Byron with dirt, burying them
fifteen feet under the ground and killing
them almost instantly. WilkeFssn Is
one Of the mot noted pipe layers In the
country, having laid the water mains ut
Toledo, Ohio, Kokomo, Ind, aud At
lanta, Ga.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany announces the following reductions
In telegraph rates to take effect Decem-
Der ist next: Maximum rate east Of and
including New Mexico and Texas will
be reduced from OIL TO seventy.hve eeuts.
Within the section east Of the Miaissip.
pi River, and north Of Tennessee and
North Carolina, the maximum rate will
be reduced from seventy-fivc cents 10
fifty cents. Within the section south,
and including Virginia aud Tennessee.
and east Of the Mississippi River thh
maximum rate Will be reuuced IRON sixty
cents 10 fifty cents
Edward Flynn, Of New York, repre.
senting English capitalists, who has re.
Gently purchased Port Royal, the finest
port on the Southern coast, has been III
Augusta, Ca, Tor the past day o. two,
and has made known hr plans. lie
bought, In all, 5000 acres including Tie
entire water front and the bes, portion
Of the island sround. He viii June.
diately build up whArves and wHtshonss,
will establish banks aud put on dir.tt
line of steamers between there and nv.
erpool He has made arrangements with
The large exporting houses Of Chitagu.
including Armour q Co.. to chip their
goods via Port Royal. which will then Le
The cheapest libe.
r.ut ninLirv ~ N..hs,til. ro.,.